This is SeaTalk: Ocean News from the University of Delaware.

You don’t have to rearrange your life or spend a lot of money to help the environment. This year for Earth Day, held April 22, consider easy things you can do to protect the coast. Examples include only using the amount of fertilizer you really need, keeping your vehicles properly maintained, taking reusable bags to the grocery store, and putting litter such as cigarette butts in its place. Rain washes excess fertilizer from our lawns, oil from our parking lots and garbage from our streets into our waterways, harming wildlife. By making small changes in your daily life, you can reduce the impact we have on the coastal environment. This is SeaTalk, a public service announcement from the University of Delaware, the Delaware Sea Grant College Program, and this station.